Automatic drawer-cover.



R. J. HOFFMEYER.

Aummmlc' DRAWER COVER. APPLICATION man JUNE 6.1914.

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RICHARD J. .HOFFMEYER, OF LOWELL, ARIZONA.

AUTOMATIC DRAWER-COVER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. .6, 1917.

Application filed June 6, 1914. Serial No.'843,465.

To all whom, it may concern: ,I

Be it known that I, Rrcrriinn J. Horr- MEYER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lowell, in the county of Cochise and State of Arizona, have invented new and useful Improvements in Automatic Drawer- Covers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relatesto improvements in furniture, and more particularly to novel means for closing drawers and the like.

The leading feature of my invention consists in providing simple, inexpensive, and highly eflicient means whereby to automatically open and close the cover of a sliding drawer or the like.

A further object of my invention lies in the provision of such a form of cover for a slidable drawer which possesses the important characteristics of locking itself .in a secure position relatively to the open end of the drawer when the latter is secured under the table, and which is adapted to yield before the advance of the drawer to open position in a simple and frictionless manner.

' With the above and other objects in view my invention consists in the combination, arrangement, and details of construction disclosed in the drawings and specification and then more particularly pointed out in the present claim.

In the drawings wherein similar reference characters designate similar parts throughout the respective views Figure 1 is a longitudinal section view showing the drawer cover in closed position,

Fig. 2 is a view similar to Fig. 1 showing the drawer cover in open position, and

Fig. 3 is an end elevation of the device.

Referring to the drawings which are merely illustrative of my invention the various details of construction are set forth. 1 designates a suitable drawer which may be of any desirable construction and is adapted to slide in a suitable table 9 in any suitable manner as by means of the longitudinally extending ribs mounted at the opposite sides of the drawer 1. These ribs are arranged to slide in the grooves 3 formed in the side plates 4 carried by the table or similar support. A cover for the drawer is designed to close the open end of the drawer effectively as by overlying the outer edges thereof in a manner to prevent the access into the drawer of vermin or foreign particles.

It will be noted that the drawer 1 is of a ward edges of said drawer are gradually and gracefully curved as at 5 for a purpose to be described. The drawer cover is designated 6 and is provided with a hinge 7 suitably secured' upon the lower face of the table 9. Said drawer cover is greater in length than the forward edges of the drawer whereupon it may rest at an inclination upon the part 7 of the bottom of the drawer, said cover being also provided with a transversely extending beveled edge 8 so as to make smooth contact with said bottom 7 when in. closed position. When the cover 6 makes engagement with the bottom of the drawer it will also make firm contact with the inclined edges 5 thereof thereby effec tively closing the drawer against the entrance of any foreign particles.

In operation they handle 10 which is mounted on the lower face of the forward end 7 of the drawer may be grasped so as to cause said drawer to slide in the tracks or grooves 3 whereupon the rounded corners of the front of the drawer 5 will immediately engage with the obliquely disposed drawer cover 6 which extends transversely of said drawer, and said cover will bear upon andbe forced upwardly as said drawer is slid longitudinally. Said drawer cover 6 will ride easily-over the rounded corners of the drawer and when the latter shall have been moved outwardly from the table as is shown in Fig. 2 said cover will have been lifted to a substantially horizontal position swinging on its hinges 7, and fitting in the space between the upper edges of the drawer and the lower face of the table as is clearly shown in Fig. 2. It will also be observed that when said drawer is slid into closed. position the cover 6 will be free as soon as the rounded corners of the drawer pass under it to gradually move downwardly as far as the pitch or inclination of the outer edges of said drawer will permit. In other words instead of the cover dropping down violently in the act of moving the drawer rearwardly to closed position the same will at all times rest upon the inclined edges 5 formed upon the drawer at its open end so as to move gradually into closed position as is shown in Fig. 1. Therefore the rounded corners 5 of the drawer serve as props for supporting the cover when the latter is'being lifted to open position as the drawer is slid forwardly.

From the above description the advantages flowing from the use of my invention will readily be discerned, and I do not limit myself to the exact details of construction herein disclosed except as falling within the purview of the appended claim.

'What I desire to secure and claim by Letters Patent is:

In a cabinet, a drawer slidably mounted therein and having sides with rearwardly inclined front edges and rounded corners at its upper plane, the bottom of the drawer extending beyond said sides, a closure pivoted at its upper end within the cabinet and normally disposed at an acute angle to rest against said inclined edges for closing the drawer compartment, said closure being A Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, I). G. 

